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Lecture 4: The Copernican Revolution
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Modern science was borne of an effort over many centuries to understand the motions of celestial bodies. The Copernican Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries was the crucial moment in history when we finally understood the nature of celestial motions, and opened the door to the modern world. This lecture reviews the problem of celestial motions, the two competing models for explaining them, and the final revolution in thought starting with Copernicus and ending with Newton. Mid-lecture my classroom AV system lost power, and the recovery slowed things down a bit. These are recorded live, after all. This lecture was conducted on 2009 Sep 28 in Room 1005 Smith Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.
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